Lucknow: The main building of Mughalsarai railway station is being painted saffron to welcome BJP national chief Amit Shah on August 5 when signboards carrying the junction's new name would be put up.

The Indian Railways had renamed the station, the country's fourth busiest, after Deendayal Upadhyaya, RSS ideologue and one of the founders of the BJP's forerunner Bharatiya Jana Sangh, on June 5 following a request from the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government.

Upadhyaya was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the railway station on February 11, 1968.

Shah will inaugurate the new signboards with the name Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Junction in the presence of railway minister Piyush Goyal and Adityanath.

H.R. Singh, the contractor assigned the task to change the colour of the railway station from white to saffron, said: "I was asked by the railway authorities to colour it saffron. The job would be completed by August 4."

The work was started on Wednesday.

Pankaj Saxena, divisional railway manager, Mughalsarai, was quoted as saying that the cleaning and painting was for an important event.

"We do such things in our houses before a marriage ceremony. Similarly, we are decorating this railway station for an important function," media reports quoted Saxena as saying.